River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-01-13

children having left their home the pre-
Nlous day n account ofW hat hadpassed
between monsieur and his wife and son
Then the valet related the incident Of
the revolver.
But how had any one entered the
house? Jean Chauban, the valet. testi-
fled that early in the morning. as he
was taking the milk ri the garden floor,
he observed that the side door of the
house was ajar, and going in that way
closed il after him. The garden wall
was high, but an expert climber could
easily scale il on either side.
The gendarmes on duty near by
testified that between 10 and II O'Clock
the previous night he saw cab stand
ing within a few hundred feet OF the
house. He spoke with the driver, who
said:
''Some gay old bachelor must live
near by for Il very comedy woman has
just disappeared by the side Of that
house"
The cahman was easily found by the
police. Did he know the lady? No.
Where did he take her up2 On the
corner Of the Rue de Morny and the
Fauhourg st. Honora Mime. Sasson 5
sister presided on the Rue lie Morny
near the Rue de Pontheu. II was Il
very painful conclusion TO reach, but
there was no avoiding it, Mime. Sasson
had assassinated her husband and the
missing articles We're taken merely to
turn aside suspicion. She had lived
unhappily with him; he had determined
TO reduce his establishment; he had
struck her
All these facts were testified to by
domestcs. Then came the episode Of
the pistol, narrated by the valet, and
the further fact, admitted by Nine
Seasons maid when she was cleycrly
captured on The street and removed to
the office of the Judge Of Instruction,
that Mime. Sasson had key to the
garden and the side door Of the house,
and that She had been absent from her
sisters house for two hours between
$3.50 and 1880 the night Get y.
Everything being thu, clear, Mime
Sasson was arrested aud charged with
the crime of murder. Mime. Sasson
denied the accusation and told the
story rs the reader has ii before him,
emitting the episode of the pistol
do you remember going to the bu-
reau in the library before YOU left the
house Oct. 22?' The Judge Of Instruc-
ton asked her.
YES. do"
You took revolver out of the bu-
reau, and You haven't mentioned the
fact
Il did; but | rcfrained from saying
anything about it because did not
wish TO have to say that | was afraid
my husband might shoot one or the
other Of us.
'.What did YOU do with the -pistol?'
II put il behind vase on the mantle
piece in my husbands apartment. in
tending 10 remove it, but | forgot it.
In consultation afterward the Judge
| said TO Coupe. detective:
This woman does not talk nor look
like guilty person. If She Is not
guilty and, mark you, she has just the
sum of money she saws she went for 10
her boudoir. and the missing watch has
not been found near her or about her
if She is not the assassin, how came the
murderer TO find the pistol hidden be-
hind the vase? You have seen the vase
and know Just how and where she laid
il. Is il possible that any one whom
Mime. Sasson left behind her did the
deeda''
This suggestion put the detective on a
line Of inquiry, and he pursued it with
yigor, but found no clew. Nine. Sasson
was convicted of the killing of her hus-
band and sentenced to fifteen years
Imprisonment.
Jean Chauban, the former valet of
NJ. Sasson, assumed the name of Rou-
maine and opened wineshop IN the
Rue Grease, near the Boise de Boulogne.
Six months after Mime, SEASONS CON
yiction. in the spring of 1886, Detec-
tive Coupe was looking for wandering
swindler who had cheated several char
table ladies in the suburbs of the city.
In his wanderings Coupe dropped into
the wineshop of Jean Roumaine., and
was soon on friendly terms with that
gentleman; for he Immediately identiii-
ed him, deliberately transformed as he
was, as NJ. Sasson's former valet, whom
he had watched for month. in various
DISCUSSES to see whether he could con
meet him with the crime of Oct. -
NJ Roumaine had "A splendid gold
chain on his vest, and Coupe asked him
the time lie pulled out the elegant
repeater, which Coupe had no hesitation
in saying exactly answered the descrip-
ion of the watch stolen from M. SasSon
when he was murdered.
~ fine watch, said the officer.
s'Yes-a present from dead friend.
answered Roumaine.
"Ah, very precious, no doubt, said
the officer,
"a sad remembrance, was the re-
ply,with an assumed look of sorrow
Il once knee j gentleman who had a
watch Just like Il ii said the detect
i've, ''and, strange to say, he is dead
also"
"A condolences said the valet
Wont monster drink2'
Thanks. was the reply 1T is
Il strange coincidence, and. would You
believe it. my friend was murdered.
Why, monsieur. what is the matter
with You? Was your friend murdered
also2'
mo, no. not that, monsieur was
the answer; but Your words startled
me. Murder you see, is such a dread
full thing and one never knows, in this
great city. who he has near him.
THAT is very true" said the officer,
.my poor friend. for instance, didn't
know. Listen it is very strange. The
jury said that my friend was murdered
by his wife--think of that; but say he
was murdered by his valet.
Roumaine. pale as a ghost, was star
ing with alarmed gaze right at the oili-
Ger and clinging with both hands to the
counter.
Let rs drink, said the officer, APP
parently not noticing the state in which
Romaine was. Coupe filled his glass
with brandy and Roumaine did the
same.
You fee strong and refreshed9'
asked the officer just so; now. if
you please, you win put on your coat
and come along with me, Jean Chauban.
for you're wanted for the murder Of NJ.
Sasson.
As Coupe covered the man with his
revolver at the moment he uttered these
,,-or,l. tbaro vyas M holm for him